Despite what (Ashkenazi) tradition says, not everyone eats dairy on Shavuot
From beer to berbere-spiced bread, culinary traditions from across the diaspora harken back to ancient foodways.
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Opinion There’s one crucial Talmudic lesson we must act on in the wake of antisemitic violence
I live in Boulder. Observing Shavuot hours after an antisemitic attack struck my community taught me a deep truth
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Food This Shavuot, fill your blintz with lox
A one-dish savory brunch for the dairy holiday
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Yiddish World No fighting on the day before Shavuot!
Two cousins argue about the meaning of the holiday until they both end up dreaming about each other's perspective
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BINTEL BRIEF How can I get my non-Jewish friends to acknowledge my holidays?
Bintel says: Try inviting them over for blintzes on Shavuot
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Opinion This Shavuot, we are in the golden age of female Torah study
There are so many female rabbi-scholars of Torah that it is no longer remarkable
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News An app that can generate 64,000 kosher cheesecake recipes aims to prove AI’s value for Orthodox Jews
Abraham Bree created CheesecakeWizard.ai to introduce the technology to his community, despite its ambivalence about the internet
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Culture Everything you need to know about cheese for Shavuot (including how to make a killer cheesecake)
Why on this day of all other days are we encouraged to eat feta, cream cheese and various dairy desserts?
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